Nancy Mitchell
How Reckoned
O toad, O blue doe
eye, O silver fox head
smirking, spirits is she
still unworthy, unfit
to sit among you―
she with the white horse’s
breath still warm and steady
between her breasts,
her mother’s ashes
still smoldering in her hand?
Nancy Mitchell, a 2012 Pushcart Prize recipient, is the author of two volumes of poetry: The Near Surround (Four Way Books, 2002) and Grief Hut (Cervena Barva Press, 2009). Her poems have appeared in Agni, Poetry Daily, Salt Hill Journal, and Green Mountains Review, and are anthologized in Last Call (Sarabande Books), The Working Poet (Autumn House Press) and The Plume Anthology of Poetry 2013. Mitchell teaches at Salisbury University and serves as the Associate Editor of Special Features for Plume.
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O toad, O blue doe
eye, O silver fox head
smirking, spirits is she
still unworthy, unfit
to sit among you―
she with the white horse’s
breath still warm and steady
between her breasts,
her mother’s ashes
still smoldering in her hand?
Nancy Mitchell, a 2012 Pushcart Prize recipient, is the author of two volumes of poetry: The Near Surround (Four Way Books, 2002) and Grief Hut (Cervena Barva Press, 2009). Her poems have appeared in Agni, Poetry Daily, Salt Hill Journal, and Green Mountains Review, and are anthologized in Last Call (Sarabande Books), The Working Poet (Autumn House Press) and The Plume Anthology of Poetry 2013. Mitchell teaches at Salisbury University and serves as the Associate Editor of Special Features for Plume.
Return to September 2015 Editon